Building Community and Thriving at UCSD
Check out Recreation Online to find out more about how UCSD Recreation can help you stay active online!
When campus reopens, sign up for the Recreation Activity Pass! You get many flexible exercise class options for an amazing price of just $25 a quarter! Drop in on your choice of over 70 Fitness & Yoga classes a week, register for up to four Rec Activity Pass trips including kayaking, hiking, snorkeling or register for Rec Activity Pass instructional recreation classes like intro to aerial silks and archery.
CAPS, Counselling and Psychological Services offers over 20 unique groups, workshops, and forums each quarter. Groups range from traditional psychotherapy groups, to psychoeducational workshops, and drop-in forums. Visit caps.ucsd.edu for detailed information.
Art Power presents performing and media arts that engage, energize, and transform the diverse cultural life of the University and San Diego. Tickets are just $9* for UC San Diego students—even further discounted during Week One of every quarter, at just $5*! It’s just another benefit of being part of this great university.
*Excludes special events.
The Zone is UC San Diego’s lounge for student health and well-being under Health Promotion Services. This quarte we are offering our Zone programs virtually! We aim to continue promviding free wellness programs that promote healthy living, personal development, and well-being resources. Visit our Weekly Calendar for program offerings. Experience The Zone for yourself today… you have nothing to lose, except the stress!
The Graduate Student Association hosts events for the whole graduate student body. Attending those events is a great way to meet people outside of your department and make friends.
Campus Community Centers at UC San Diego build affinity among a diverse population of students, faculty and staff members. Open to undergraduate and graduate students, staff, faculty, alumni, and the San Diego community, the centers contribute significantly toward the evolution of a socially just campus. They are places of belonging, where traditional notions of diversity are challenged. Where self-awareness is learned, leaders are developed, and open dialogue and expression are encouraged.
ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER MIDDLE EASTERN DESI AMERICAN PROGRAMS & SERVICES
Asian Pacific Islander Middle Eastern Desi American (APIMEDA) Programs and Services provides community and retention support for students. Programs help students—especially from the Asian American, Pacific Islander and Southwest Asian North African American populations—find community at UC San Diego. Support and resources encourage community development, foster greater visibility for the diversity within the APIMEDA community and help students gain skills for success in their future careers.
BLACK RESOURCE CENTER
The Black Resource Center (BRC) serves the entire population of UC San Diego while emphasizing the Black experience. It promotes scholarship, fosters leadership and cultivates community for historically underrepresented students, faculty, staff and alumni. The BRC offers identity affirming support services, mentoring, professional and leadership development, co- and extra-curricular opportunities and nonacademic counseling. Additionally, BRC collaborates with various university departments to provide resources and services designed to inspire students to choose UC San Diego as well as support them during their academic career through to graduation.
CROSS CULTURAL CENTER
The Cross-Cultural Center (CCC) provides a place of belonging and validation for underrepresented and underserved students, staff, and faculty. The center also builds critical engagement and learning about diversity and social justice at UC San Diego. Through social, cultural, academic and professional programs that build leadership and cultural competence, the center helps the campus to understand and increase equity, diversity and inclusion. Centrally located and always abuzz with creative and enlightening workshops, lectures, and more, the Cross- Cultural Center is a place to discover, connect and succeed.
INTERTRIBAL RESOURCE CENTER
The Intertribal Resource Center (ITRC) is dedicated to creating a welcoming space on campus and a supportive community for Native American students, faculty and staff by offering academic support, cultural awareness programs and social activities. Through a variety of workshops, lectures, symposiums and other programs, the ITRC creates opportunities for the greater campus community to learn about and engage with important issues in Indian Country.
LGBT RESOURCE CENTER
The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center is a diverse and inclusive public space for all members of the campus community to explore issues relating to sexual and gender identities, practices and politics. Interactive educational programs promote wellness, wholeness, and solidarity among students, staff, faculty and alumni by developing knowledge and visibility of diverse queer people. The center also offers social justice training, workplace equity education and academic research support.
RAZA RESOURCE CENTRO
The Raza Resource Centro is a space for all to converse and connect around intersectional Chicanx Latinx identities, Latinidad and cultura. Comunidad is cultivated through murals, a vibrant community space and interactive learning opportunities. Programs offer academic, leadership, identity, civic, volunteer and professional development to strengthen community, identity development, retention and student success. The Centro also hosts community-building projects focused on advocacy, co-curricular, and civic partnerships designed to enhance holistic student development.
WOMEN’S CENTER
The Women’s Center serves as a resource for the entire campus community while focusing on the experiences of diverse women. The center provides education and support regarding gender issues. Programs provide opportunities for experiential learning, promote self-awareness, foster leadership development and encourage critical engagement with gender, feminism and social justice. This dynamic family-friendly community space serves as a home away from home for many on campus.